Meilisearch
Shares rank 31 of 38 search engines by recommenders
Recommended as an accessible search engine that does in one tool what otherwise takes a stack of separate applications.
Recommended as an accessible search engine that does in one tool what otherwise takes a stack of separate applications.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Replaces a stack of tools
“require a bunch of different applications for different parts of the stack in order to do the same basic stuff as e.g. Meilisearch”
Comment from 15 Jan 2026 in “Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?” “tools like Meilisearch, Typesense make this more accessible now”
Comment from 23 Jan 2026 in “Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines” Well regarded by other developers
“I hear good things about Meilisearch”
Comment from 19 Aug 2026 in “PostgreSQL for Everything” “I'd probably use Meilisearch”
Comment from 22 Aug 2026 in “Hister – private, self hosted search engine”
Other search engines people recommend
The four most recommended other search engines, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kagi | 732 | 234 | 76% | 13 | 2 yrs106 owners | Approved |
| Google Search | 315 | 1,039 | 23% | 12 | 20 yrs25 owners | — |
| DuckDuckGo | 286 | 204 | 58% | 12 | 3.5 yrs47 owners | — |
| Hister | 81 | 9 | 90% | 9 | 2 mo17 owners | Approved |
| MeilisearchThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I'd probably use Meilisearch”
“I hear good things about Meilisearch”
“the amount of effort needed to orchestrate and keep all the individual Meilisearch nodes up to date”
“Elasticsearch and even Meilisearch felt like overkill for some projects I work on.”
“tools like Meilisearch, Typesense make this more accessible now”
“require a bunch of different applications for different parts of the stack in order to do the same basic stuff as e.g. Meilisearch”
“My early benchmarks showed a 50% reduction in disk usage.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.